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<span class=large>AMOS</span>
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CHAPTER 2
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The Lord will pour out judgments upon Moab, Judah, and Israel for their unrighteousness.
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Thus</span> saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; For three transgressions of <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/2/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 16: 13.">Moab</a>, and for four, I will not turn away <i>the punishment</i> thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
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But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, <i>and</i> with the sound of the trumpet:
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And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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&#182; Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away <i>the punishment</i> thereof; because they have <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/2/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 26: 14 (14-15).">despised</a> the law of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
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But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
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&#182; Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away <i>the punishment</i> thereof; because they <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/2/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Amos 8: 6.">sold</a> the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
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That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the <i>same</i> maid, to <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/2/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sacrilege.">profane</a> my holy name:
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And they lay <i>themselves</i> down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned <i>in</i> the house of their god.
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&#182; Yet <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/2/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 21: 24 (21-25); Josh. 24: 8.">destroyed</a> I the Amorite before them, whose height <i>was</i> like the height of the cedars, and he <i>was</i> strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
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Also I <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/2/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 12: 51; Amos 3: 1.">brought</a> you up from the land of Egypt, and led you <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/2/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 14: 33.">forty</a> years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
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And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/2/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 6: 2 (2-21).">Nazarites</a>.  <i>Is it</i> not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
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Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed <i>that is</i> full of sheaves.
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Therefore the <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/2/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Amos 9: 1.">flight</a> shall perish from the <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/2/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Eccl. 9: 11.">swift</a>, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty <sup>c</sup><a href="amos/2/14c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Deliverance.">deliver</a> himself:
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Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and <i>he that is</i> swift of foot shall not deliver <i>himself:</i> neither shall he that rideth the horse <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/2/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 33: 17.">deliver</a> himself.
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And <i>he that is</i> courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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